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Hmm. What we call "independent" schools; that is, those mostly funded Federally...

I can see why you would agree. I'll propound the thesis that exposure to variety from a young age leads to acceptance, and the corollary that lack of ...

I'm not familiar with Collingwood. If the notion is that the existence of individuals is supposed in the formation of the language used to discuss the...

It doesn't scan.

...I guess that follows...

Ah, of course. Thanks. Do you want forms with that?

You're not in England, or have an accent that is not different to those with whom you come into contact.

A bit early here. The classic refutation of the argument is of course that existence is not a predicate. This came up a week or so ago in another thre...

To take an extreme example, I find that when in conversation with folk with Cerebral Palsy that affects speech, at first I cannot quite make out what ...

Would that it were that simple.

OK, I'm not reading all that... but thank you.

Why not "accepted"?

...and there's the problem, the perpetuation of a certain accent.

I think your ideas have weight.

Apropos of nothing in particular, of course. How to Deal with a Passive Aggressive Person

Acceptable to whom? And there's the rub. You've started a dozen threads but only made three comments. Why post if you are not here for the replies?

Even as you seem to be closing your hand around an argument only to have it slip out. I don't see in your post anything specific enough to disagree wi...

Yep. A better way of putting the point I made. Here I disagree, but only in that it is not any one of the premises that is false, but the formulation ...

China.

What can you buy at Plato's take-away?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-27/china-ghost-cities-show-growth-driven-by-debt/9912186

ooo lots. Fifty or so.

Oh, not Japan and India - small players. We provide the raw material for the empty cites of China.

I agree; that is, I agree as to the seeming. But I think it must be just an artefact of familiarity. That is, we've been treating the apple and the tr...

But not in an interesting way. To do that, you would have to give a reason for preferring exactitude, where no such reason is needed.

SDG 13 is Climate Action. I had a look a the spreadsheet; the main culprit is exported CO2 emissions - gas and coal. Couldn't find anything that place...

You might do well to consider the quality of your companions.

It seems appropriate to reply to several folk with the one post... But why shouldn't we use terms that are imprecise? Indeed, demonstrably, we do, and...

Cheers. Jenny and John in the example are not in a disagreement about what is the case, but as to how to appropriately use the word "heap". As was sai...

The Law of Bivalence: A statement is either true or it is false; no middle value is available. Hence, "This is a heap of sand" is either true, or it i...

There's nothing here.

You are misusing bivalence.

There's a way of understanding what a heap is, that is not dependent on an explicit formulation of what constitutes a heap in each and every case. Ins...

The article contains several obvious confusions. There's an implied version of Stove's Gem; and mistaking a methodological assumption for an ontologic...

There's no confusion, just folk expecting exactitude in a language game which does not involve exactitude.

An untidy collection of objects, place on top of each other. But you understood that, and as a competent speaker of English you use the word correctly...

SO give an example of that confusion. But neat that you relate this to the Problem of the Criterion; there's a similar unjustified expectation of exac...

Sure, but the OP is not quantum biology.

There's no gentle way to say it. Trying to build perception and reason from quantum mechanics is like trying to fry fish with communism.

Well, no, there is no paradox. The supposed question" how many items make a pile?" simply misunderstands the use of "pile"; there is no precision, and...

That's nonsense. Non-sense; without meaning.

You can't see the fool ishness of this? If physicalism is true, there is nothing that is nonphysical. Another basic mistake, of the sort that make up ...

If you read this and didn't flinch, you haven't adopted the critical approach that is the essence of rationality.

But of course you are able to use the word "heap" effectively, not despite it's imprecision, but in virtue of its imprecision. Compare "throw yours on...

Perhaps erroneously.

Once more... No one thinks that all there is, is matter. Physicalism is a methodological position, that physical explanations ought not involve things...

Here's some real-world stuff to contemplate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT6vQwZYTp0

...so the argument against science is that Counterpunch doesn't understand it. Sure.

See, this is why we don't need a Federal ICAC; it'd be flat out trying to keep up with political corruption. Can't have that.

You said "Christian doctrine is no more a stretch than quantum mechanics. It's just that there's no evidence for God - or string theory and the multiv...